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Circulating Coinage and Wheat/Memorial Cents

It was a very interesting discussion on the "Mercury dimes in circulation" thread that also branched into the role of half dollars in circulation. It's made me think and I've come up with the following idea...

The change to clad coinage led to a greater interest in coin collecting.

Think about it... The change to clad coinage led to the removal of practically all pre-1965 circulating coinage. It wasn't just coin collectors pulling the coins out of circulation, but many non-collectors who thus became collectors.

I got into coin collecting because of my grandmother in the early 1970s. She never collected coins but the change in coinage made her aware that certain coins needed to be saved.

Here's the thing that puzzles me about it... By the mid-1970s, practically all wheat pennies were being pulled out of circulation even through some were less than 20 years old. So why the need to pull wheat pennies out of circulation in the early to mid-1970s? I believe it was the awareness of the silver-to-clad coinage got the larger segment of the population to pay attention to coins. Silver coins got pulled from circulation and that caused Wheat cents to also get pulled because they were also different. No one was pulling Jefferson Nickels out of circulation (except the silver war ones) despite some being older than many of the Wheat cents.

The change from copper to zinc cents in 1982 is a significant change, yet we don't see the 1959-1982 copper cents becoming absent in circulating coinage. Likewise, we don't see Memorial cents being pulled from circulation due to the Shield cent like the Wheat cents once were. The state quarters didn't cause people to pull generic Washington quarters from circulation. The redesign of the nickel didn't cause people to pull the old-style Jefferson nickels from circulation.

As far as the coin collecting hobby goes, it's been subdued because we haven't had the "stimulus" of coinage being pulled from circulation to feed people's interest. Clad coinage doesn't look as nice as silver coinage as it gets wear. And the zinc pennies just get plain ugly with even a little circulation. The result is that all our circulating coinage is as much as 50 years old (85 years old for the Jefferson nickel) and there's no stimulus to get people to pull it out of circulation to collect.

Those who collect the modern coinage are collecting MS coins that haven't been circulated. Will today's circulating coinage ever be worth more than face value? What's the stimulus that will ever get people to collect today's circulating coinage? Or in 50 years, will we still have 100 year old clad coinage and 135 year old nickels still circulating?
I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.

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  • <<The change from copper to zinc cents in 1982 is a significant change, yet we don't see the 1959-1982 copper cents becoming absent in circulating coinage.>>

    In late 1982 the zinc cents had almost completely replaced copper cents here in Massachusetts. Then they started showing up again. We probably have a higher percentage of copper cents in circulation now than then.
  • stevebensteveben Posts: 4,595 ✭✭✭✭✭
    bad money drives good money out.
  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 11,867 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I pull the copper cents out of my register drawers every night...and everything else that is "out of the ordinary".
    oih82w8 = Oh I Hate To Wait _defectus patientia_aka...Dr. Defecto - Curator of RMO's

    BST transactions: dbldie55, jayPem, 78saen, UltraHighRelief, nibanny, liefgold, FallGuy, lkeigwin, mbogoman, Sandman70gt, keets, joeykoins, ianrussell (@GC), EagleEye, ThePennyLady, GRANDAM, Ilikecolor, Gluggo, okiedude, Voyageur, LJenkins11, fastfreddie, ms70, pursuitofliberty, ZoidMeister,Coin Finder, GotTheBug...
  • TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭


    << <i>I pull the copper cents out of my register drawers every night...and everything else that is "out of the ordinary". >>



    But what do you do with your copper cents? About 15 years ago I pulled all copper cents out of my pocket for several years. I have a couple of jars of copper Memorial cents but no clue what to do with them. I don't live close enough to Canada to take them to be melted down for the copper content. I have a hard time believing that there's a market of people wanting to buy copper Memorial cents above face value. Any shipping costs would negate any such profit anyway.
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.
  • HydrantHydrant Posts: 7,773 ✭✭✭✭✭
    You might just be onto something, tigersfan. I never thought about it but your theory is very interesting.
  • TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭


    << <i>You might just be onto something, tigersfan. I never thought about it but your theory is very interesting. >>



    Clad and zinc coinage has made our money worthless from a numismatic perspective.
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.
  • halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭


    << <i> The change from copper to zinc cents in 1982 is a significant change, yet we don't see the 1959-1982 copper cents becoming absent in circulating coinage. >>



    Millions and millions of 1959-1982 copper cents have been and still are being drawn from circulation.
    The casual observer may not have noticed yet because so many were minted.
    In fact there is a forum at least partially devoted to mining copper from circulation HERE

    HH
    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
  • TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭


    << <i>Millions and millions of 1959-1982 copper cents have been and still are being drawn from circulation.
    The casual observer may not have noticed yet because so many were minted.
    In fact there is a forum at least partially devoted to mining copper from circulation HERE

    HH >>



    Your link doesn't work. Hopefully I've fixed it above.

    But what are people doing with the 1959-1982 copper cents they're pulling from circulation? It's not practical. Think about it this way... $10,000 in gold vs. silver vs. copper. You have a massive volume and weight if you want to put your money into copper coins for investment. At the current price of copper, a copper cent is only worth 1.5x face. Even if someone wants it above face, shipping costs for that much weight make it impossible to move. It's against the law to melt it as scrap copper in the U.S. Taking it to Canada has expense. Copper would really need to rise in price to make it practical.
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.
  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 11,867 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a 5 gallon bucket about 1/3 of the way full...just sitting in the corner. Worse case scenario...take 'em to the bank. They would probably hate to see that coming...rolling a container on a dolly; "I would like to make a deposit please".
    oih82w8 = Oh I Hate To Wait _defectus patientia_aka...Dr. Defecto - Curator of RMO's

    BST transactions: dbldie55, jayPem, 78saen, UltraHighRelief, nibanny, liefgold, FallGuy, lkeigwin, mbogoman, Sandman70gt, keets, joeykoins, ianrussell (@GC), EagleEye, ThePennyLady, GRANDAM, Ilikecolor, Gluggo, okiedude, Voyageur, LJenkins11, fastfreddie, ms70, pursuitofliberty, ZoidMeister,Coin Finder, GotTheBug...
  • Hello Folks and Tigers Fan 2

    Think that now---after thought---that you are on the right tract when you said " clad and zinc coinage has made our money worthless from a numismatic perspective."

    Let me tell you a little story. All the while the state quarters were coming out---I had a patient collecting them faithfully. She was, in the end, missing two of them. Just couldn't find them in change. I found them and gave them to her. She actually had purchased two albums and was quite pleased that they were now complete. Years went on by. She didn't do anything after that----didn't even do the 2009 quarters. More years went by. She found out that the quarters were----as you said---WORTHLESS.

    Just this past summer----she gave me a bunch of collected material. It included the two sets of state quarters. I told her that ALL the clad was worthless and did exactly what I do with clad---sent it to the bank for cash at face value. I didn't even look at ANY of the quarters in the folders. Just plucked them out and made 4 rolls.

    It's the same with Ike dollars----or any of that kind of stuff. Like others---when I bought small collections, I separated out the junk from the silver. Shoved the junk in a corner of what I call my "coin room". Finally, I got tired of it JUST SITTING THERE. But, before I condemned the Ike coins---they were BIG afterall, I checked the metal content. I even looked at each coin's grading condition. What I found out was that---as of that day---the metal in such a BIG coin was worth 18 cents. I laughed out loud and that was that----NO NUMISMATIC VALUE and NO ACTUAL METAL VALUE. Just a bunch of circulated clads. Over two hundred of them went to the bank. They, along with a bunch of other clads, helped me to buy a 1920D PCGS AU50 Walker.

    And, by the way, hundreds of bicentenial quarters and halves----shoved in that same corner of that room---went to the bank that day. They will NEVER be worth collecting---unless in top MS condition. Even Rick Tomaska---as he clips the coins out of their mint holders---only tries to sell you the top gem coins on his TV show. The rest---most of them--- are lower graded MS coins. He even admits that.

    Folks finally find out that---if it isn't silver, you might as well SPEND it if it has been circulated. Bob [supertooth]
    Bob
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 23,898 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The change to clad coinage DID NOT lead to a greater interest in coin collecting. At the time the changeover took place (it actually began in very early 1966 when clad coinage first started actually appearing in circulation) coin collecting had been in a nosedive since May of 1964 when the great roll and bag boom collapsed. Coin collecting made somewhat of a comeback in the 1970's but what supported the boom was not anything related to clad coinage.

    Clad coinage has never generated much interest and probably never will since mintages are huge for most issues. A small number of collectors may chose to play the "top pop" game with clad coins but when they do so they are entirely dependent on the coin "making the grade" with a major TPG.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • ShadyDaveShadyDave Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TigerFan2- Tell this guy his copper pennies are worthless!image


    Lots of pennies!


    I have a home depot bucket about 2/3 of the way full with pre-1982 (I don't bother with 1982) pennies. In all honesty, its just fun and I know that this will probably not even make me any money after all is said and done, but I'd rather pull copper cents out of circulation then leave them in! I also have another Home Depot bucket full of scrap sterling...waiting for the prices to go up before I cash in. You can sell stuff in person, so you don't have to worry about shipping/sellers fees/other logistical issues and Craigslist is a good resource for that. I plan on pulling out my Cherry Pickers Guide next time New England is hit with a big snowstorm and will hunker down and I'll see what varieties/errors I can find!
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The clad coinage is worthless numismatically.... but it still spends well....and, in proper quantities, can be exchanged for bills...Cheers, RickO
  • TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭
    Do the math... Assume someone wants to buy copper pennies at melt value. That's 1.5x face at today's copper price of $2.33/lb.

    The USPS large flat rate box costs $12.95 to ship and has a 50 lb. limit. So it's possible to sell roughly $70 face of copper pennies in a large flat rate box (145 copper pennies = 1 lb.)

    If someone is paying you 1.5x face, then you're receiving a $35 premium on that $70 face of pennies. Less shipping costs, you're up $22.

    But you have all the zinc pennies to deal with. Drop them in one of those automated coin machines and lose 3-5 cents on the dollar. If 20% of pennies in bank rolls of copper, then you have $280 face in zinc pennies and you lose $10-14. If it's 10%, then you lose $20-28 in disposing of the zinc pennies. Or are you going to spend the time rolling up your massive hoard of zinc pennies?

    The only way I can see it being worth it to make a concerted effort to sort out copper pennies and deal with the remaining zinc pennies is if you believe copper will go above $4/lb which makes pennies worth 2.7x face. Do the math then and the $70 face of copper pennies now gives you a $120 margin.

    Of course, whoever is buying your copper pennies isn't going to give you full melt value but something a little less than that.

    Still, I guess it makes sense to pull out the copper pennies you get in change. I just looked in my pocket and found 12 pennies. 3 of them are copper. But I expect that the actual mix in circulation is less than the 25% I just found in my pocket from an extremely small sample size.
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.
  • TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭


    << <i>TigerFan2- Tell this guy his copper pennies are worthless!image


    Lots of pennies!


    I have a home depot bucket about 2/3 of the way full with pre-1982 (I don't bother with 1982) pennies. In all honesty, its just fun and I know that this will probably not even make me any money after all is said and done, but I'd rather pull copper cents out of circulation then leave them in! I also have another Home Depot bucket full of scrap sterling...waiting for the prices to go up before I cash in. You can sell stuff in person, so you don't have to worry about shipping/sellers fees/other logistical issues and Craigslist is a good resource for that. I plan on pulling out my Cherry Pickers Guide next time New England is hit with a big snowstorm and will hunker down and I'll see what varieties/errors I can find! >>



    But if you could talk to that guy in that article, I expect he's got a few screws loose and is doing it more for fun than anything. He's not getting rich over it.

    I have probably close to a gallon of copper pennies that I pulled out of circulation in the late 1990s. Maybe next time copper goes above $4/lb I'll seek out someone wanting to buy them.
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.
  • ShadyDaveShadyDave Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭✭✭
    TDBank, my credit union and many other banks will allow you to dump pennies at no cost into a counter machine if you have an associated account.

    Again, I've never done anything with my bucket full of pre-1982 pennies, but if I ever needed to make room or wanted to get rid of them I'd just list it on Craigslist... I enjoy watching sports (Red Sox, Bruins and UCONN huskies) and CRHing pennies at the same time. I find a lot of interesting stuff other than copper (proofs, errors, wheaties, foreign coins and indian heads on occasion). Definitely dirty and a difficult process to bring them to one of my banks free coin counters but I enjoy doing tedious tasks like that when hanging out on the couch during the winter.

  • TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭


    << <i>The change to clad coinage DID NOT lead to a greater interest in coin collecting. At the time the changeover took place (it actually began in very early 1966 when clad coinage first started actually appearing in circulation) coin collecting had been in a nosedive since May of 1964 when the great roll and bag boom collapsed. Coin collecting made somewhat of a comeback in the 1970's but what supported the boom was not anything related to clad coinage.

    Clad coinage has never generated much interest and probably never will since mintages are huge for most issues. A small number of collectors may chose to play the "top pop" game with clad coins but when they do so they are entirely dependent on the coin "making the grade" with a major TPG. >>



    I disagree. I think clad coinage did initially benefit collecting as it served to make the old coinage more attractive to take out of circulation and hoard. Imagine it's 1970. Even someone who's not collecting coins knows about the clad coins replacing the silver coins and Memorial cents replacing Wheat cents. There's a societal bias for people to pull the older coins out of circulation. It generates some interest.
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.
  • TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭


    << <i>Let me tell you a little story. All the while the state quarters were coming out---I had a patient collecting them faithfully. She was, in the end, missing two of them. Just couldn't find them in change. I found them and gave them to her. She actually had purchased two albums and was quite pleased that they were now complete. Years went on by. She didn't do anything after that----didn't even do the 2009 quarters. More years went by. She found out that the quarters were----as you said---WORTHLESS.

    Just this past summer----she gave me a bunch of collected material. It included the two sets of state quarters. I told her that ALL the clad was worthless and did exactly what I do with clad---sent it to the bank for cash at face value. I didn't even look at ANY of the quarters in the folders. Just plucked them out and made 4 rolls. >>



    Back around 1999 or 2000 I bought an issue of Coinage magazine (or one of the other coin magazines) and got ticked off at the hype over the state quarters. They were devoting a serious number of pages to the state quarters and even asking people to write in with their experiences of finding state quarters in their change. It was completely stupid hype. The Mint was making state quarters at a greater rate than the pre-1999 regular quarters. There was nothing rare or special about any of them.

    For the first couple of years, I started setting aside every state quarter I got in change. I then realized I had a jar of state quarters for no logical reason. I went to Las Vegas and those state quarters were my slot machine money. Basically they became a donation to the casino.

    Clad coinage... I don't understand why anyone collects any clad coinage, even sending it to PCGS for the super high MS grade. I see zero long-term value for any of it as even at the stuff graded at high MS grades, there's a huge quantity getting those grades. There's no rarity. I only collect Dansco Albums of the clad coinage to fill the holes for amusement. When I die, I expect whoever gets my collection to take all the clad coins and take them to the bank.
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.
  • <<the clad coinage is worthless numismatically>>

    I wish one of you who feel this way would find a any condition type B like type H 1972 D quarter (reverse side which matches the S mint proof versions of 1969-1972) and sell it to me.

    Heck, I would even buy type H 1969 D, 1970 D and 1971 D quarters if the price was right.
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 23,898 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>The change to clad coinage DID NOT lead to a greater interest in coin collecting. At the time the changeover took place (it actually began in very early 1966 when clad coinage first started actually appearing in circulation) coin collecting had been in a nosedive since May of 1964 when the great roll and bag boom collapsed. Coin collecting made somewhat of a comeback in the 1970's but what supported the boom was not anything related to clad coinage.

    Clad coinage has never generated much interest and probably never will since mintages are huge for most issues. A small number of collectors may chose to play the "top pop" game with clad coins but when they do so they are entirely dependent on the coin "making the grade" with a major TPG. >>



    I disagree. I think clad coinage did initially benefit collecting as it served to make the old coinage more attractive to take out of circulation and hoard. Imagine it's 1970. Even someone who's not collecting coins knows about the clad coins replacing the silver coins and Memorial cents replacing Wheat cents. There's a societal bias for people to pull the older coins out of circulation. It generates some interest. >>



    What caused the older silver coins to be pulled from circulation was their silver value, not anything to do with collector value. I lived through this and don't have to wonder about what caused it. The wheat cents are another case. There was essentially no good reason to pull them from circulation as they had no real value above face. Some very, very large hoards were assembled (millions of pieces) and I often wonder just what became of those hoards. By the time hoarding of wheat cents began in ernest in the late 1960's all of the better dates were long gone (by 1963 it was a waste of time to go through rolls ... the good dates were gone). People continue to hoard wheat cents to this day, just why they do this I am not certain since they have little if any value over face.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭


    << <i>What caused the older silver coins to be pulled from circulation was their silver value, not anything to do with collector value. I lived through this and don't have to wonder about what caused it. The wheat cents are another case. There was essentially no good reason to pull them from circulation as they had no real value above face. Some very, very large hoards were assembled (millions of pieces) and I often wonder just what became of those hoards. By the time hoarding of wheat cents began in ernest in the late 1960's all of the better dates were long gone (by 1963 it was a waste of time to go through rolls ... the good dates were gone). People continue to hoard wheat cents to this day, just why they do this I am not certain since they have little if any value over face. >>



    I think Wheat cents were being pulled due to the change from silver to clad coinage. The silver to clad coinage gave the impression that ALL older coinage had additional intrinsic value just because it was different. The older Jefferson nickels didn't get pulled because they looked the same as the newer ones. That's my hypothesis.
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I have a 5 gallon bucket about 1/3 of the way full...just sitting in the corner. Worse case scenario...take 'em to the bank. They would probably hate to see that coming...rolling a container on a dolly; "I would like to make a deposit please". >>



    I have about 45 gallons of cents right now, they have been filtering slowly back to coin machines.
    In memory of my kitty Seryozha 14.2.1996 ~ 13.9.2016 and Shadow 3.4.2015 - 16.4.21
  • TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭
    When you get rolls from the bank, what percentage are copper?
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.
  • TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭
    I did some searching. According to the CoinStar website, there's no fee if you select a gift card as payout instead of cash. So $100 in zinc pennies yields a $100 gift card. So nothing is lost to get rolls of pennies to pull out the copper ones. So this will be my new hobby (to the dismay of my wife).
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.
  • halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Millions and millions of 1959-1982 copper cents have been and still are being drawn from circulation.
    The casual observer may not have noticed yet because so many were minted.
    In fact there is a forum at least partially devoted to mining copper from circulation HERE

    HH >>



    Your link doesn't work. Hopefully I've fixed it above.

    But what are people doing with the 1959-1982 copper cents they're pulling from circulation? It's not practical. Think about it this way... $10,000 in gold vs. silver vs. copper. You have a massive volume and weight if you want to put your money into copper coins for investment. At the current price of copper, a copper cent is only worth 1.5x face. Even if someone wants it above face, shipping costs for that much weight make it impossible to move. It's against the law to melt it as scrap copper in the U.S. Taking it to Canada has expense. Copper would really need to rise in price to make it practical. >>



    Thanks for fixing the link. Don't know what happened. It worked in preview. Probably some editing after trying the preview and accidently snagged a piece of the addy.

    Haven't followed these in a couple of years when Cu prices were high, but they were sold in 'units' or some such which weighed just under 70 lbs and fit perfectly into a LFRB.
    As I understand, these sell/sold very well to the SHTFers on e-Bay . . .

    HH
    Need the following OBW rolls to complete my 46-64 Roosevelt roll set:
    1947-P & D; 1948-D; 1949-P & S; 1950-D & S; and 1952-S.
    Any help locating any of these OBW rolls would be gratefully appreciated!
  • TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭
    I went to the credit union after work to get some cent rolls. I asked for $10 worth but after checking all their drawers, they could only find $1 worth of rolls for me. So I got them.

    Roll 1: 4 Cu, 48 Zn (yes, 52 coins in the roll)
    Roll 2: 13 Cu, 37 Zn (1 Cu was a 1971-S and another was a somewhat ugly 1959)

    So with this small sample size, just under 17% Cu.

    And I got out my jars of Cu cents I pulled out of circulation back in the late 1990s. Oops. Many of the coins were in rolls and when I looked in the rolls, those were the Zn ones. So I weighed my Cu cents and it only came to 16 lbs (about $22-24 face). I'm not going to be that wealthy when Cu goes back to $4/lb.
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.
  • JebJeb Posts: 122
    I got a $25 box of Lincolns from chase. I found 6 Canadian, 15 wheats, the rest was about evenly split between copper and zinc. I found several red 70 and 60 era coins that were probably from someone's collection. The only nice thing was a circulated 1995 double Liberty probably in xf condition. I had a good time going through them. I haven't done anything like that since I was a kid in the 70s when my grandparents would let me search through their change jar when we would visit on Sunday. My grandfather had hoarder leanings when it came to loose change.
  • TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭


    << <i>I got a $25 box of Lincolns from chase. I found 6 Canadian, 15 wheats, the rest was about evenly split between copper and zinc. I found several red 70 and 60 era coins that were probably from someone's collection. The only nice thing was a circulated 1995 double Liberty probably in xf condition. I had a good time going through them. I haven't done anything like that since I was a kid in the 70s when my grandparents would let me search through their change jar when we would visit on Sunday. My grandfather had hoarder leanings when it came to loose change. >>



    When you get a $25 box from Chase, do you just walk in and get it? How do you ask for it? Do you need to order it? Do you need to be a customer of that bank?

    Tomorrow at lunch I'll try a few banks where I'm not a customer and see what my experience is.
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.
  • JebJeb Posts: 122
    I walked up to the teller window and asked for the $25 box. They had to open the safe behind the tellers. You need to go to a large commercial bank to get them without ordering. I asked my sister-in-law, who works at a smaller bank, and they only have customer wrapped rolls, that is why I went into chase. Not every bank keeps them on hand like that due to the cost of transporting and storage. I went to that chase as there are a lot of retail places in that area and figured they would have them for their regular retail clients. Good luck in your roll searching.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have rolls and a couple of jars of wheat cents that I have been promising to search....had them for many years.... maybe this winter... Cheers, RickO
  • TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭
    Yep. Stopped by a Bank of America branch at lunch. The conversation went like this.

    Me: Do you have any rolls of pennies?
    Teller: How many do you need?
    Me: How many do you have?
    Teller: I don't have any here but we have boxes of them in the back.
    Me: How many are in a box?
    Teller: $25
    Me: I'd like $25 then.
    (I hand her $25 and she goes in the back and brings me out a sealed $25 box of pennies.)

    Tonight I'll report my findings including % Cu.
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.
  • JebJeb Posts: 122
    Have fun searching. I'm thinking about getting some more boxes and holding on to them for those snow days that will be coming soon. It will give me an excuse not to shovel the driveway (or a reason to hurry up and finish).
  • TigersFan2TigersFan2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭
    When I told my wife I was searching penny rolls for Cu pennies, her first comment was to ask me if I was also going to walk along the road picking up aluminum cans.
    I love the 3 P's: PB&J, PBR and PCGS.

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